Women smokers are being offered vouchers for up to $300 if they quit while pregnant, because of the damage a mother's tobacco use can do to an unborn baby. The voucher scheme in South Auckland, for groceries, baby products, phone credit, cinema tickets or petrol, is among the latest additions to the Government's arsenal of quit-smoking schemes in which the main weapon is a four-year programme of annual 10 per cent tobacco tax rises. The second of those - more than 11 per cent, including an inflation-linked boost - took effect yesterday. British American Tobacco says the recommended retail price of its Holiday King Size cigarettes is now $18 for a packet of 20, up from $16.20. Some experts...
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